Examining Innovative Postal Products for the 21st Century | Federal Workforce, US Postal Service and Census The CEO of the now defunct company Outbox provided testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. In CEO (and a former staffer of Congressman Randy Neugebauer-R-TX-19) Will Davis’ written testimony he wrote:
May 21, 2014—Statement of Fredric V. Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, following the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s approval of H.R. 4670, the Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014: This irresponsible bill, H.R. 4670, is bad for the American public, bad for businesses, bad for the economy and bad for […]
Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee adopted bills to enhance postal delivery, improve the Government’s use of design-build contracts, and promote federal information transparency. H.R. 4670, Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014, was reported favorably to the House as amended on a vote of 18-13. Introduced by Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the […]
Act now! Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121, ask to be connected to your House member, and then let your representative know you oppose the “Secure Delivery for America Act.” May 20, 2014—Statement of Fredric V. Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee mark-up of the […]
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is floating a new postal proposal this week, and he intends to put before his committee on Wednesday morning, May 21. Unlike the previous Issa attempt, which replicated President Obama’s postal plan, the latest Issa draft bill would simply phase-out door delivery and replace it […]
Fredric V Rolando, NALC President, The Postal Record, May 2014 The Postal Service and much of Washington are caught in a time warp. For some reason, they still think it’s 2009 and that the Postal Service is in terminal decline. The postmaster general’s “shrink to survive” austerity plan was developed in the depths of the […]
The following are excerpts from a United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report requested by Chairman [Congressman] Darrell Issa, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives on “U S Postal Service: Delivery Mode Conversions Could Yield Large Savings, but More Current Data Are Needed.” {note: some paragraphs may be out of sequence} The […]
In a May 9, 2014 press release, the Postal Service issued another quarterly press release turning an operating profit (of $261 million) into a loss. The supposed loss, an accounting fiction, was caused entirely by the 2006 law which generates a long-term loan to the Federal treasury, under the guise of “pre-funding” employee benefits. In […]
As chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has dogged the Obama administration since 2011. Issa has tried to tied Obama on reports of IRS bias in tax exemption forms, at the Benghazi attacks of 9/11/12, Healthcare.gov website fiasco, bring down the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and anything […]
April, 8, 2014—Following today’s release of the U.S. Postal Service’s financial statement for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2014, which covers January, February and March, NALC President Fredric Rolando released the following statement: The Postal Service today reported a quarterly operating profit of $261 million, which brings the operating profit for the first half […]